Jonathan Kozol is an American writer and educator born in 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts. He has written several works about flaws and inequalities in the American public education system. Kozol received fellowships from prestigious institutions like the Guggenheim Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He founded non-profits like the Cambridge Institute for Public Education and Education Action to advocate for social justice and grassroots organizing among teachers. Some of Kozol's most notable works exposing inequalities in public schools include Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, and The Shame of the Nation.
